WI:Elisabeth II marries the Jacobite Wittelsbach Francis II

Is it possible for Elisabeth II to marry Franz Herzog von Bayern, recognized by the Jacobites as Francis II, they are roughly the same age, would Elisabeth II be interested to unite the Jacobite and Sophia succession.
 
Is it possible for Elisabeth II to marry Franz Herzog von Bayern, recognized by the Jacobites as Francis II, they are roughly the same age, would Elisabeth II be interested to unite the Jacobite and Sophia succession.

No. Ignoring for the moment the fact that the mediaeval legal principle that a claimant must be born in liegance (basically must be a subject of a previous monarch) for the claim to be valid - which means that Elizabeth herself is the most valid Jacobite claimant - Francis is a Catholic and therefore disbarred (and Elizabeth would be in she married him), and neither Elizabeth nor IIRC Francis have ever shown the slightest interest in the Jacobite claim anyway.
 
Is it possible for Elisabeth II to marry Franz Herzog von Bayern, recognized by the Jacobites as Francis II, they are roughly the same age, would Elisabeth II be interested to unite the Jacobite and Sophia succession.

From another thread:

QUOTE=Welshroyalhistory;7083756]Duke Franz of Bavaria is openly gay.

There is always Franz's younger brother Max, although having been born in 1937, he is 11 years Elizabeth II's junior.

Max has 5 daughters, the eldest Sophie, will inherit the Jacobite claim in due course. Sophie is the wife of the Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein, she was born in 1967 but could have been by a long stretch a candidate for the Prince of Wales, she is only 6 years younger than the late Diana, Princess of Wales.

Sophie's son will one day be the ruling Prince, meaning for the first time since 1918, the Jacobite claimant to the British throne will also be part of a ruling royal dynasty.[/QUOTE]

Well, that's a bit awkward.

The other problems are the age difference, the religious difference, the unpopularity of all things German in the late 1940s (although in fairness, I note that none of the Bavarian royals had been Nazis) and that Elizabeth's parents wanted her to have a love match not an arranged marriage.
 
Even if you ignore Francis' preferences, no there's no interest in ending the Jacobite pretence than their is to bring the House of Wessex back into the fold. Ignoring Saxe-Coburg-Gotha/Windsor being very popular and the Jacobites being a historical curiosity that I'm confident 95% plus of the British population has no idea still exists, the role of the British monarchy makes the political rivalry of Royal Houses a complete irrelevance.

I think a Republic is ten times more likely than we Brits jumping Houses and that's saying something.
 
Do not forget that without his marriage to Elizabeth Phillip Mountbatten would be at most a minor footnote in history. The world would never have been exposed to his wit and wisdom!
 
From another thread:

QUOTE=Welshroyalhistory;7083756]Duke Franz of Bavaria is openly gay.

There is always Franz's younger brother Max, although having been born in 1937, he is 11 years Elizabeth II's junior.
So is Edward II, many marriages have been made to fix the succession by uniting them in marriage, I think if Elisabeth marries Francis, Francis would convert to Anglicanism and do his duty as a Prince-Consort, another thing a marriage with Francis will make British monarchs have a claim to the Duchy of Brittany, the claim of the Jacobite claimant to Brittany is superior to the claim of the Bourbons.
 
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